[Bullish]

This probably won't put a dent in the kooks belief in the end of the world in 2012. but it does show that astronomers aren't buying it.

[the invisib1e hand]

the world could just as well seize up for a bunch of other reasons. the secularist version of millenial fever seems to be upon us.

[cripplecreek]

[sinanju]

Hey! I thought this was supposed to herald the age when peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars?

Oh, right. The hippies became misanthropic eco-loons some years back...

[KoRn]

Might be of interest.

[cripplecreek]

the sun appears to enter the part of the sky occupied by the Dark Rift every year at the same time, and its arrival there in Dec. 2012 portends precisely nothing.

Anyone who pays any real attention to the sky knows this.

The saddest part of this crap is the fact that it has completely obscured the real achievement that the Mayans managed to work out a 52,000 year calendar. That's a pretty awesome mathematical feat for primitive savages.